Environment, Health, and Sustainable Development
1st Edition
Published on 5. February 2010
Book
Hardback
240 pages
978-0-88937-374-7 (ISBN)
Description
Unique insights into the planning, design, and management of sustainable and healthy environments The planning, design, and management of sustainable and healthy environments are the key themes addressed in the papers in this book, selected from the IAPS 19 Conference held in Alexandria (Egypt). Authors from a number of different disciplines discuss challenges, approaches, and successfully implemented environmental measures intended to promote healthy and sustainable environments: healthy environments for children and adults, settlement patterns, housing and sustainability, managing the environment, nature. With reports on research from Scandinavia to Latin America, Japan to the Middle East, by expert authors drawn from four continents, this book offers unique global insights into the planning, design, and management of sustainable and healthy environments that can inform and inspire activities at a local level.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Toronto
Canada
Target group
Professional and scholarly
For social scientists and planning professionals, including sociologists, environmental psychologists, architects, political scientists
Illustrations
Illustrations, maps, plans, ports.
Dimensions
Height: 22.9 cm
Width: 15.2 cm
ISBN-13
978-0-88937-374-7 (9780889373747)
Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Mostafa K. Tolba is President of the International Center for Environment and Development and former Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Program. Aleyxa Abdel-Hadi is Emeritus Professor of Interior Design at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the Helwan University, Cairo. Salah Soliman is Professor at the Department of Pesticide Chemistry and Toxicology, Alexandria University.
Content
Preface, Gabriel Moser & David Uzzell; Introduction, Mostafa K. Tolba, Aleya Abdel-Hadi, & Salah Soliman; Part I: Towards Sustainable and Healthy Environments; Environment and Sustainability: The Overarching Issues, Ismail Serageldin; Challenges Facing the Implementation of Sustainable Development - The Premises for Building a Sustainable Society, Mostafa Tolba; Healthy Cities: Key Principles for Professional Practices, Roderick J. Lawrence; Part II: Healthy Environments for Children and Adults; Managing Time and Space of Everyday Life with a Focus on Health Promotion, Liisa Horelli; Sustainable Highrise Developments: Factors Impacting on Residents' Health and Wellbeing, Claire Henderson-Wilson; Child-Friendly Cities - Sustainable Cities? A Child-Centred Perspective and the Child's Perspective, Pia Bjorklid; Children's Different Views on Child-Friendly Urban Environments, Maria Nordstrom; Creating Sustainable Places for Children, Susan Paget; Part III: Settlement Patterns, Housing and Sustainability; Sustainable Liveability: Privacy Zoning as a Physical Condition for Social Sustainability, Machiel van Dorst; Sustainable Housing: The Role of Open Spaces in Supporting Community Formation Across Dwelling Types, Maria Cristina Dias Lay & Antonio Tarcisio Reis; Urban Socio-Spatial Segregation in Latin America: Contrasting Perspectives and Empirical Evidence, Dirk Heinrichs & Sigrun Kabisch; Centripetal Gated Communities around Cairo, Aleya Abdel-Hadi & Hend Elazhary; Changes in the Gated Communities of Istanbul, Pulat Gokmen; The Question of Design Background that Operates Largely Below Consciousness: The Case of Amman, Shatha Malhis; A Collaborative Sustainable Planning Program with Students and Inhabitants in Tochio, Japan, Shin-ya Nishimura & Akihiko Iwasa; Part IV: Managing the Environment & Nature; Experiential Landscape: Exploring the Spatial Dimensions of Human Emotional Fulfillment in Outdoor Open Space, Kevin Thwaites & Ian Simkins; Redesigning Nature and Managing Risk: Social Representation, Change, and Resistance, Paulka Castro, Susana Batel, Hannah Devine-Wright, Nicole Kronberger, Carla Mouro, Karine Weiss, Wolfgang Wagner; Physical and Perceptional Investigation of the Urban Environment in Clerkenwell, London, Mohamed Refaee, Steve Sharples, Mags Adams, Trevor Cox, Gemma Moore, & Ben Croxford; The Professionalisation of Expertise in Sustainable Development, Martin Spence Symes; Environmental Worldviews and Water Conservation: The Eco-Anthropocentric Paradigm (EAP), Victor Corral-Verdugo, Mirilia Bonnes, Guiseppe Carrus, Gabriel Moser, & Jai Sinha.